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KING. Take her away. |
DIANA. I'll put in bail, my liege. |
KING. I think thee now some common customer. |
DIANA. By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you. |
KING. Wherefore hast thou accus'd him all this while? |
DIANA. Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty. |
He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't: |
I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not. |
Great King, I am no strumpet, by my life; |
I am either maid, or else this old man's wife. |
[Pointing to LAFEU] |
KING. She does abuse our ears; to prison with her. |
DIANA. Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir; |
Exit WIDOW |
The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for, |
And he shall surety me. But for this lord |
Who hath abus'd me as he knows himself, |
Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him. |
He knows himself my bed he hath defil'd; |
And at that time he got his wife with child. |
Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick; |
So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick- |
And now behold the meaning. |
Re-enter WIDOW with HELENA |
KING. Is there no exorcist |
Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes? |
Is't real that I see? |
HELENA. No, my good lord; |
'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see, |
The name and not the thing. |
BERTRAM. Both, both; o, pardon! |
HELENA. O, my good lord, when I was like this maid, |
I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring, |
And, look you, here's your letter. This it says: |
'When from my finger you can get this ring, |
And are by me with child,' etc. This is done. |
Will you be mine now you are doubly won? |
BERTRAM. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, |
I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. |
HELENA. If it appear not plain, and prove untrue, |
Deadly divorce step between me and you! |
O my dear mother, do I see you living? |
LAFEU. Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon. [To PAROLLES] |
Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher. So, I |
thank thee. Wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee; |
let thy curtsies alone, they are scurvy ones. |
KING. Let us from point to point this story know, |
To make the even truth in pleasure flow. |
[To DIANA] If thou beest yet a fresh uncropped flower, |
Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower; |
For I can guess that by thy honest aid |
Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.- |
Of that and all the progress, more and less, |
Resolvedly more leisure shall express. |
All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, |
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. [Flourish] |
EPILOGUE |
EPILOGUE. |
KING. The King's a beggar, now the play is done. |
All is well ended if this suit be won, |
That you express content; which we will pay |
With strife to please you, day exceeding day. |
Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts; |
Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts. |
Exeunt omnes |
THE END |
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THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA |
by William Shakespeare |
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